The Wind From the East by Almudena Grandes

Author:Almudena Grandes [Grandes, Almudena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781583229569
Google: ND6ogkYxG54C
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-03T18:30:00+00:00

Everything else was easy. When Vicente came to pick her up to take her to the restaurant where his friend was celebrating his last night as a bachelor, he arrived on time, and she saw that he was wearing very different clothes—jeans, a checked shirt and a suede jacket—from the suit and tie she was used to seeing him in at the office. She was pleased by this, and even more by the fact that he couldn’t take his eyes off her legs as she got into the car.“You look great, Sara!” he told her.The bride and groom were saying farewell to their single status with a joint dinner, as befitted a modern couple who would be getting married in church the following morning in an almost clandestine ceremony (with only their closest family present, no confetti, white dress, veil, or bouquet) as a way of keeping their respective families happy.The couple welcomed Vicente and Sara without surprise because, as she later found out, they hardly knew Vicente’s wife, and they were used to seeing him alone, or with a different girl each time. The comfortable combination of indifference and friendliness that Sara sensed in them, and in most of the guests at the dinner, helped to put her at her ease, to rise above the inevitable, occasional little smiles from a few back-biters.Vicente couldn’t keep his eyes off her even when he was eating, enveloping her in an exclusive, tyrannical attention that Sara would have hated in another man, making sure she never ran out of wine or cigarettes or anything else, during the entire meal.That evening, he embodied the man that Sara had been yearning forever since her fateful sixteenth birthday party.

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